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Claribel-ware: Ballads, Royalties, and the Birth of the Music Industry in 1860s Britain
By Whitney Thompson, Linktree “It would be a curious though a humiliating study,” begins a January 1867 article in the music periodical The Orchestra, “to speculate to what extent the future historian of art in Great Britain (…) will ascribe the decline of song music to the influence of the Royalty system.” Although the “royalty…
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